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...many Freudians does it take to change a light bulb? Two. One to change the bulb, and one to hold the penis...I mean ladder! Although Sigmund Freud isn't exactly famous for his sense of humor, he actually liked jokes--in fact, he wrote a book about them, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. But he probably wouldn't have liked that one. Freudian psychoanalysis was one of the great innovations of the 20th century, and only 50 years ago, it was a mainstay of mental-health care. But since then it has gone from a medical...
...almost a century, Freud's followers have treated his techniques like Holy Scripture. Now they are being forced to update his theories to compete with new drugs and new therapies, even if it means using methods that would have been unthinkable to their patriarch. At the same time, post-Freudian psychotherapists are figuring out that the old master still has something to offer the science of mental health: an understanding of the human mind and its many malfunctions that's richer, fuller and more exciting than anything invented since...
...their time--the early decades of the 20th century--Freud's ideas radically and irrevocably changed the way we think about who we are. He both explained the human mind and made it more mysterious. One of Freud's key insights was to divide the mind into the conscious and the unconscious: he showed us that beneath the surface banality of everyday thoughts and gestures lurk subterranean caverns of forbidden longings that reach all the way back to our earliest childhood memories. Freud's therapeutic technique, psychoanalysis, was an intellectual exploration of those depths, where patients could confront their deepest...
...1920s, psychoanalysis had become wildly popular in America (a country Freud visited only once and hated). Jazz age sophisticates held "Freuding" parties at which they told one another their dreams. Samuel Goldwyn, the movie-studio magnate, offered Freud $100,000 to write a love story that Goldwyn could turn into a motion picture. (He was rebuffed.) But Freud died in 1939, and the golden age of psychoanalysis lasted only until the 1950s. By then competing psychotherapeutic theories and approaches had begun to spring up, among them ego psychology, self-psychology, the object-relations school, interpersonal therapy and existential therapy...
...virulently anti-Freudian strains of post-Freudian therapy, and it has become one of the dominant approaches to therapy today. It was pioneered in the early 1960s by the psychiatrist Aaron Beck, who was trained as a Freudian but--in classic Oedipal fashion--rebelled against his master. Beck dismissed Freud's ideas about the subconscious as so much scientifically unverifiable cigar smoke. In their place he crafted a quick, pragmatic therapeutic approach that dispensed with abstract theories and focused on results. Cognitive therapy attacks such symptoms as anxiety and depression by "coaching" patients on how to think about their lives...